QOTD and SOTD

QOTD (quote of the day)

It is hardly as if women leaders do not wield real power in India. 255 Lok Sabha seats have been won in the 2009 elections by parties where women are the absolute and unchallenged leaders. In spite of this, we have seen no change in the number of women Parliamentarians. The idea of reserving seats for a group is based on the pectation that when they come to power, they will use it to help other less fortunate members of the group. Clearly that expectation has been definitively belied.

- Santosh Desai writes in “Gender Reservations” under City City Bang Bang, Times of India, Bangalore, Page 8, June 15th 2009.

SOTD (software of the day )

VideoCacheView for windows
After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser’s cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.
It automatically scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (Including Firefox) and finds all video files that are currently stored in it. It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future.

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Things that I want to do in my vacation

Thought if i don’t put up a list, i’ll never know at the end of the vacations, if I did well

• Read

1. in spite of the gods – i’ve started
2. the lord of the rings
3. the mahabharata

• Watch

1. all good movies from “my movie collection”
2. all enjoyable tv series’ from “my tv series collection”
3. some tv

• Do

1. play badminton
2. sit around at home (aaah.. does this qualify as a todo list item.. life!)
3. music classes maybe?
4. fix some stuff around home

I know.. the Watch part is a bit humungous, bit I’d really like to complete the rest in full

The Tipping Point

Ah! Again, we come here. The impact of the first impression

Assume -

A person associated with a tribe starts a conversation with you and leaves a very bad impression.

The image of the whole tribe is affected by that individual. Is it right ?

To an extent yes, maybe no. But surely the image in your mind is right if the leader of the tribe witnesses it and ignores it/takes his associates’ side.

They may be right. You may be right.

But you are entitled to your opinion on them. And you can share it with your tribe.

Nothing wrong.